A key whose value is a string indicating the access group an item is in.
SDKs
- iOS 3.0+
- macOS 10.9+
- Mac Catalyst 13.0+Beta
- tvOS 9.0+
- watchOS 2.0+
Framework
- Security
Declaration
let kSecAttrAccessGroup: CFString
Discussion
The corresponding value is of type CFString and indicates the item’s one and only access group.
For an app to access a keychain item, one of the groups to which the app belongs must be the item’s group. The list of an app’s access groups consists of the following string identifiers, in this order:
The strings in the app’s
Keychain Access Groups EntitlementThe app ID string
The strings in the
App Groups Entitlement
Two or more apps that are in the same access group can share keychain items. For more details, see Sharing Access to Keychain Items Among a Collection of Apps.
Specify which access group a keychain item belongs to when you create it by setting the k attribute in the query you send to the Sec method. Naming a group that’s not among the creating app’s access groups—including the empty string, which is always an invalid group—generates an error. If you don’t explicitly set a group, keychain services defaults to the app’s first access group, which is either the first keychain access group, or the app ID when the app has no keychain groups. In the latter case, the item is only accessible to the app creating the item, since no other app can be in that group.
By default, the Sec, Sec, and Sec methods search all the app’s access groups. Add the k attribute to the query to limit the search to a particular group.